[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] SCR-274N Makes It on ARRL.ORG

[Robert Wilder]

I sure agree 100% to Robert's comments.  The old BC-640 is a very stable 
rig IF specs are not exceeded..  Just once in 24 years in the USAF did ever 
get a pink ticket with a rig and that was an out of tune BC-191.  While in 
the USAF I was always working radio and would fire up the spare rigs on the 
ham bands and with that on exception never got a bad report. Am sorry to see 
so much of that old gear slowly disapearing and pices like it was gold. Some 
of the new generation rigs are hitting marketplace but cost more that the 
most expensive ham rig.  Nice thing about those rigs like the 610, 639 and 
640 is you do not have to hear the shack.

73
Bob Wilder, AF2HD/AFA2HD
Custodian WW2LST (LST-325)



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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] SCR-274N Makes It on ARRL.ORG


> Well, I've mostly quit getting into these "discussions"  as they usually
> produce more heat than light.  But it is a fact that the majority of the 
> post-war
> and 50's comments in the Amateur press condemning various military sets as 
> TVI
> generators is a myth born of QST commercial advertiser's trying to sell 
> their
> new stuff plus abject incompetence and a propensity to try to get twice as
> much power out of the sets as they were ever designed to produce.  Even 
> the much
> maligned BC-640 when properly tuned produces no TVI.  I operated two of 
> them
> rock stock in the 60's on 2 meters in a channel 8/11 fringe area with no
> complaints from the neighbors.  And I've operated several BC-610's using 
> the MO
> with no chirp reports, too.  Another myth.
>
> The unmodified aircraft sets are total non-starters as TVI generators.
> Additional bypassing was NOT required.  I don't care what you ever read in 
> the
> amateur press.  It was all disinformation.  The sets worked just fine when
> connected and operated as designed.  Just like most anything else ever 
> built.
>
> In fact, I'd like to nominate Editors and Engineers for the 2006 Darwin 
> Award
> (posthumous of course).
>
> In a message dated 6/20/2006 11:45:00 PM Central Daylight Time,
> MillerKE6F at aol.com writes:
>> Like it or not these
>> old war horses were not fit to be put on the  air in their avionics
>> configuration and for the most part even using the rear  connector 
>> without
>> additional
>> bypassing was an invitation for TVI.
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
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